The Girl With A Hole In Her Heart by A Man Called Adam - Other Records Ltd [OTHED028]

The Girl With A Hole In Her Heart

A Man Called Adam

A 11 track house album (53m 43s) — released May 26th 2023 on Other Records Ltd

#electronic #house

A Man Called Adam's Sally Rodgers and Steve Jones have been making pioneering electronic music since the late 80s. Exploring diverse musical influences but always sounding recognisably themselves, they defy categorisation and yet have produced defining tracks in genres such as Acid Jazz, Balearic House, Ibiza Chill Out and Nu British House. Respected by peers and fans alike, they are endlessly curious and never stand still.

The Girl With A Hole In Her Heart is a Balearic record, though not one that's inspired by those fabled Iberian sun-kissed beaches that stretch on forever and sunsets that stop you in your tracks. Rather, it's a House record made for all night dancing in a decommissioned steelwork. It's an ambient record that strolls a windswept coastline where lime-grass dunes rise and fall like slumbering megafauna. The album walks the ugly, lovely industrial coastline of the North East of England, stopping at points to soak up the breathtaking scenery and watch everyday life carrying on in the face of rapid deindustrialisation.

Over the album's twelve tracks, A Man Called Adam perfectly capture both a time and place. While Starlings dances carefree like a murmuration and The Girl With The Hole In Her Heart trips back through snapshots of terrace house childhood whilst rolling on a retro electro bassline, Hidden Dragon's low end bass evokes heavy machinery looming large on the horizon. Gorgeous ambient soundscapes like In Favour Of Storms glide gracefully as shift sirens and field recordings of demolition blasts lace with Ammonite's controlled kettle drum rolls into an addictive Lil' Louis pulse.

Of the album Sally writes:

"Spending this precious time back in the wild coastal and industrial landscapes of Teesside has stirred up that sense of awe at the steely, elemental authority of nature, and in human resilience. The melodies, sounds and lyrics are sometimes flinty and angular, sometimes fluid and fun (because the people are very funny here), and I hope the record reflects those feelings of human fragility and deep time that I always feel looking out to sea on stormy days."

The Girl With A Hole In Her Heart was made in Teesside. The sleeve photos for Fight or Flight and the album (along with previous singles Starlings and Ammonite) were taken by Robin Dale in Teesside in the 1970s. With doctoral research that spans the fields of sound, technology and lyric form, AMCA have produced soundworks for BAFTA winning director Mark Jenkin, The British Museum and BBC Radio 4 among others, and this summer they're creating a series of works and events for a blockbuster exhibition – 'PEOPLE POWERED: Stories From The River Tees' – a collaboration between MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, part of Teesside University) and The National Portrait Gallery about the River Tees and its cultural impact (opening 22 July).

LOVE THIS and LOVE you both !!!!!! xx - Tia Cousins Club Mick's resident / NTS / Balamii / London

Will support! - DJ Ray Velasquez Various Clubs New York, NY USA / Billboard Magazine Club Play Chart reporter

Echoes of the legendary Frankie Knuckles (RIP).......alongside EBTG, making great house music for 'grown ups'......awesome - Bruce Sandell

This is wicked ...Lovely ...Thanks - Trevor Fung

As a band that made a number of seminal tracks back in the day it is great to hear them still making music that is relevant today... certainly will get played on sunny Ibiza beaches - Howard Hill Ibiza: Pikes Hotel, Mambo Cafe, Word of Mouth

Beautiful, classic AMCA. I've enjoyed the recent forays into new territory but this is like a cosy warm blanket of a house record. Love Sally and Steve. And mum-house is lols x - Will Nicol Northern Soul Rave Patrol) / Totally Wired Radio / FAITH / Music Box Radio

Super ballsy outsider disco / arthur russell raw production vibes - keeping all the passion and emotion in wonky unpolished form... and all the more beautiful for it.... this shows AMCA's years in the game give them the edge to make peerless stuff like this.... love the dj style arrangement to - AMAZING - Leo Zero Two Tribes Campfire / Kings Cross / London

Beautiful and looking forward to the record AMCA always consistently super - Love the Loft Piano Vocal - nice floaty piano groove and then sally's distinctive voice and dancing until the sun's coming up - living for today - trippy and dreamlike - love it :-) - Chris Sweet Northern Soul Rave Patrol / Totally Wired Radio / FAITH / Music Box Radio

I LOVE A MAN CALLED ADAM ! - Tim Love Lee Various, worldwide / East Village Radio NYC

Groovy prod, with disconotdisco vox from Sal, what's not to like? - Bill Brewster Bill Brewster podcast / NTS

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